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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Raz0rEdge" data-source="post: 1827785" data-attributes="member: 110816">Since the integrated graphics chip shares the system RAM and you are working with GPU-intensive apps which might also be using a lot of memory, you might be just starving the GPU. If things behave perfectly fine with no active load on the GPUs, then it is likely not a cabling issue.Once the glitch happens, is your only recourse of getting back into business powering down the machine?Can you open up a Terminal window and then run the following command before running whatever sequence of things that causes the issue?[CODE]$ cd ~/Documents$ while 1; do mem=`top -l 1 | grep PhysMem`; d=`date`; echo "$d - $mem" >> mem.log; sleep 5; done [/CODE]You can kill this script at any time by hitting CTRL+c or when the glitch happens by powering down your computer.Now in your Documents folder (you can open this up in Finder), you'll have a mem.log file that contain information like this:[CODE]Mon Aug 19 08:56:21 EDT 2019 - PhysMem: 14G used (3578M wired), 1954M unused.Mon Aug 19 08:56:27 EDT 2019 - PhysMem: 14G used (3602M wired), 1911M unused.Mon Aug 19 08:56:33 EDT 2019 - PhysMem: 14G used (3594M wired), 1919M unused.Mon Aug 19 08:56:38 EDT 2019 - PhysMem: 14G used (3555M wired), 1905M unused.Mon Aug 19 08:56:44 EDT 2019 - PhysMem: 14G used (3583M wired), 1920M unused.Mon Aug 19 08:56:50 EDT 2019 - PhysMem: 14G used (3596M wired), 1923M unused.[/CODE]On my 16GB MBP, I have 3.5GB that is wired and cannot be replaced and about 2GB free for use. The Used isn't as useful. Once your unused number starts to dwindle down, you start swapping to disk. However, the things that are wired are not swappable.What you are looking to see if your unused memory gets down to 0 or very close to 0 and your wired starts jumping high.Report back on what you see and we can go from there.</blockquote>

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